Pulok K Mukherjee's Biography

Pulok K Mukherjee, Director- School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University

Professor Pulok K. Mukherjee is working as the Director, School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His research works highlights on traditional medicine inspired drug discovery from Indian medicinal plants to make them available from Farm to Pharma. He has made several innovative and outstanding contributions both in education and research in the area of natural product studies, ethnopharmacology and evidence based validation of herbs used in AYUSH, India.
His research career has been outstanding, including globally acclaimed contributions on validation of medicinal plants from India systems of medicine, their formulation and standardization, which are useful bio-prospecting tools for the traditional medicine based drug discovery programme. Based on these works, he has to his credit more than 188 publications in peer reviewed impact journals, several patents and 22 books/book chapters. His research publications have cumulative Impact Factor of 205; h-Index- 45, i10-index - 146; which has been cited for over 9800 times.
Dr Mukherjee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and has been awarded with so many laurels from Govt. of India and abroad; to name a few: awarded with the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship from Association of Commonwealth Universities [ACU], UK; TATA innovation fellowship, by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India; Outstanding Service Award from Drug Information association [DIA], USA; Career Award for Young Teacher from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Govt. of India; Best Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year, from the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers’ of India (APTI), India; Indian Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM), Award , for Contributions to Development of Ayurvedic and Herbal Pharmaceutics and many others.
Dr Mukherjee is serving as Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Elsevier Science. He is the member of the editorial board of several Elsevier journals including Phytomedicine, Phytochemical Analysis, Life Science, Synergy; World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine from China, India J Traditional Knowledge, J Pharma Education and Research and many others. He is also associated as advisor to different organizations and administrative bodies of government of India and abroad. Working as, advisory board member in Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB), Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India; Expert committee member in Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India; Advisor in American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, USA and others. He is the Secretary of the Society for Ethnopharmacology, India (SFE India), working on desimination of knowledge fro promotion and development of medicinal plant and Ethnopharmacology.